Hi all,

Here's a few notes from the conversation we had. It was myself (Ben), Robert and Sean. These aren't decided courses of action, but we would like to start some of these to get the ball rolling.

1) We discussed finding out what's happening with the advertising revenue. If we haven't been paid, we need to chase this up. It was also suggested that we put out an advert for the WM student housing coop to get more revenue.

2) It's assumed that we'll put out a print of 10k issues for distribution. I would like to work a volunteer sign up database and distribution map. I'll work on this and hopefully get it ratified if people are okay with it.

3) We need to put out a call out for the conference in Autumn (I think)

4) We should work on a 'write for us' style advert block in the paper to encourage more article submissions. I'd also like to get a few of these printed and have them put around a few public areas like local libraries and notice boards.

5) We need a list of our membership and who is in what role, and who would like to undertake a task. If this is done, we can then send out email updates, and I can text people to remind them about meetings and potential online votes.

6) We should make an advert in the paper for ourselves to encourage people to join - something like "join us, have a say in how we run, " etc, to drive up recruitment from our paper distributions.

7) We should have an "Advertise with us!" space on our next issue, so that should be designed.

8) As always, ask people to submit articles. However, we felt it would be worthwhile creating a basic style guide. It was suggested we use something similar to the 'new internationalist' or 'the guardian'. Just a basic one so people have an idea how to submit stuff. This also allows us to define the kind of articles we want more clearly so we don't get anything.

9) Sean needs to speak to Natasha Turner for a reason I can't remember.

10) In order to help secure distributors, we get someone from Left Unity to write something about the party, and ask people in exchange to help distribute papers in central and north birmingham. I think this would have to just be an open piece similar to how papers have articles from various political parties, and not an explicit article of support. We would need a wider discussion with the membership as people are cautious about political affiliations.

11) Maybe some kind of letters page. I'm happy to send one in.

12) Where should we next meet, and what time. It was suggested that maybe 7pm would be better if people had work hours. I will put this forward as a proposal.

It'd be better if we could get a quorate vote on a lot of these, but I'm not sure of the process.